Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic

A few things about the site

Please take note of the site copyright restrictions and the 'click on icon-button link' guide.

This site should always be free to use on-line, Google Adsense adverts or book purchases via Amazon.co.uk pay for all the internet-broadband and web hosting fees and hopefully a new faster computer in the future and I try to ensure that most adverts in the science-chemistry sections concern educational material.

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HOW TO USE THE SITE !

This massive site of 1250+ webpage site is quite easy to navigate once you get used to it and there are lots of sub-indexes and keyword lists at the top of the notes pages. YOU MUST EXPLORE THE GENERAL LINK STRUCTURE of the site and the various SUB-INDEXES for the different academic levels and their appropriate revision notes, quizzes etc.

There are top and bottom link bars on all the notes and, in future, as I re-edit all the pages, the appropriate level of each page will be shown highlighted in pink e.g. above would indicate a GCSE level page, though the level will also be mentioned in title of the page contents. There will be no high lighting if no particular level is appropriate or all levels are appropriate (as for this page). Sometimes the GCSE and Advanced Level link boxes are both highlighted meaning considerable syllabus/specification overlap. The date in the right-hand link box is NOT 'today's date' but when the page was last edited.

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KS3 Science (~US grades 6-8)

Go to HOMEPAGE (picture link on all notes and sub-index pages)

Choose KS3 Science link (left top bar link or 1st 'grey link' under site title and introduction)

Then choose Quiz link for Biology, Chemistry, Physics or 'Mixed-Combined' Science Quizzes

Scroll down to the or specific Quiz link

and click on one that best suits your needs. There may be 3 choices (shown by 3 different click on icons), which have identical Q databases. (i) old code, faster download, suitable for dial-up users, (ii) new xhtml code versions of unlimited time to do quiz, broadband, (iii) also broadband, 5 min time limit versions of new xhtml code versions.

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GCSE-IGCSE-KS4 Science-Chemistry (~US grades 8-10)

Go to HOMEPAGE (picture link on all notes and sub-index pages)

Choose GCSE Chemistry link (middle top bar link or 2nd 'grey link' under site title and introduction)

Then choose Revision Notes link or Quizzes link or ..?..

Scroll down to 'notes on what you need' or quiz on topic required

(There are about 30 pages of notes and 30 main Chemistry, Earth Science and Radioactivity quizzes, often with a Foundation-easier OR Higher-harder version option. For the notes you need to read the summary to judge what might best suit your information needs)

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Advanced Level Chemistry GCE-AS-A2-IB (~US grades 11-12)

Go to HOMEPAGE (picture link on all notes and sub-index pages)

Choose Advanced Chemistry link (right top bar link or 3rd 'grey link' under site title and introduction)

Then choose Revision Notes link or Quizzes link or ..?..

Scroll down to 'notes on what you need' or quiz on topic required (if written!)

(The notes and quizzes are listed in three groups, namely Organic, Inorganic and Physical-Theoretical Chemistry and there are sub-links at the top and at the end of many of the advanced chemistry revision notes pages)

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TWO OTHER SEARCH METHODS for this site

1. Using the quite comprehensive alphabetical site index

e.g. icon link top/bottom left of this page. This can be a good way to use the site BUT it can't include everything!

2. The Google Search Box

e.g. at top of this page and click right circle button first. Take care, this is a big site of notes and syllabus-specification references, so you can get a lot of returns from the search. ALSO, some files might have been removed and a dead link will occur, this is because Google will be out of date for a few days to a few months?

SITE USE NOTES, Copyright (c) doc b and printing out pages

(1) COPYRIGHT: Copyright guidelines:- ALL of the website resources are free to use on-line or be printed out by a teacher as a class resource on an electronic white board or by a student for revision purposes. Images MAY be used after a 'permission to use' request BUT none of my own work is to be used directly in the production of any webpage for the internet or any format like moodle projects or anything else which involves web pages etc. etc. (but see *), non of the quizzes or content may be saved in any format (e.g. HTML output) and I retain all copyright on the content of the Hot Potato quizzes. ALL site content, unless otherwise indicated is © of Dr W. P. Brown. (* the only four pages free of copyright restriction are the 3 mini-site maps for KS3 science, GCSE science-chemistry, Advanced level chemistry and the GCSE chemistry notes absolute URL link page. I could produce more copyright free link pages of absolute URL's if there seemed to be a demand?

(2) KS3 SCIENCE * KS4 SCIENCE GCSE IGCSE GCE AS A2 IB CHEMISTRY * SITE PURPOSE EDUCATION - online learning or 'self-private-tuition' using revision notes, quizzes, practice tests involving SCIENCE in the areas of REVISING only the CHEMISTRY-Earth Science-Radioactivity at Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic via HOMEPAGE in secondary school/schools, 6th form college/colleges, academy/academies or home self-study and may help with 1st year undergraduate university chemistry courses. Hopefully it will encourage interest and understanding of Chemistry, Earth Science and Radioactivity in any country of the world, though the site is written entirely in English. The website is designed to help and unofficially support students/teachers revise-learn/teach the chemistry for modular or co-ordinated examination science courses from UK QCA based AQA, OCR (Oxford and Cambridge) Twenty First Century (21st C) and Gateway Science, Edexcel 360Science (Additional/Applied 360 science) , Nuffield, Salters, Cambridge International (CIE), London International, WJEC, CCEA exams etc. Also, national award assessments-examinations for GCSE-IGCSE-KS4-O level-BTEC-NVQ applied, additional and chemistry science courses and examinations, Advanced Subsidiary Level GCE-AS-A2-IB-KS5-BTEC-NVQ National Chemistry assessment levels, KS3 SATs Science-biology/chemistry/physics (SAT revision levels 3-5 or 5-7) and covers much of the revising, learning and teaching chemistry of the International Baccalaureate, K12 US grade 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,AP basic level examinations courses for the national curriculum for secondary schools and colleges. The site does not support the content of England, Wales or Northern Ireland primary science KS1 or KS2. The notes should also provide some background theory for a coursework assignment or a project. Please note that my on-line revision notes and quizzes are no substitute for good classroom teaching-lecturing and thorough studying of your own notes and textbooks, practicing past papers and a copy of the syllabus which are readily downloaded from the examination board sites, but I hope here and there they will lend a tutoring hand on some topic, unit, module etc. (© Dr W P Brown 14-12-07]

(3) For final revision you have to be intellectually honest about what you don't know or follow, YOU have to take the stuff to pieces, analyse what you do/do not understand and reconstruct it so it all makes sense in the end. There is no other way, there are no magic secrets on how to revise and learn, its mainly down to hard work and just good old fashioned study and employing teach-yourself strategies without the need for extra tutors and tutoring lessons. I also think there is too much hit and miss revision using past papers (which I do NOT supply) and not enough systematic revision. I also hope it will help teachers in planning lessons and developing schemes of work for science-chemistry. There are no lesson plans on the site but there are plenty of quizzes to incorporate into classroom activities whether photocopied or on electronic whiteboard projector for use as self-tuition-assessment purposes and a variety of teaching and learning styles and the images may be used in Microsoft Word documents and powerpoint projections. The site seems to be used by a large number of home study tutors, particularly the revision notes. An individual tutor may printout out the notes for science-chemistry learning teaching-tuition purposes and for background material for assignments and projects. I have no interest or time in producing WORD.doc or xxxx.pdf revision notes files of the notes at the moment. Neither have I time to write up many practical laboratory experiments ('lab'-'labs') at the moment, but the notes contain lots of background information of chemical reactions in terms of observations-balanced equations-reactants-products-theory etc. I also find it difficult to recommend specific exam websites or syllabus textbooks, it depends exactly on what you need, what you have time for, and there are so many of them to choose from and I do not supply past examination papers for classes. The sites resources include revision notes, quizzes and worksheets which provide support for home study or tuition for homework and coursework help e.g. science investigations for any of the key stage courses indicated, but I do not supply lesson plans. * KS3 SCIENCE * KS4 SCIENCE GCSE IGCSE GCE AS A2 IB CHEMISTRY

(4) PLEASE do NOT request syllabuses or past papers, get them from exam board sites or your teacher and do not send coursework for proof-reading, its not my responsibility!

(5) It is IMPORTANT to repeat a Quiz, by clicking on the [Repeat Quiz] BUTTON, page refresh causes problems.

(6) UPDATING: You should also bear in mind that many pages of notes and quizzes are re-edited every month, the last update date is recorded on each page or quiz. I'm not perfect, so if you see any error of any description PLEASE kindly inform me by email for the benefit of all concerned.

(7) PRINTING and File types: ALWAYS DO A PRINT PREVIEW and if it doesn't fit on with 'portrait' then use 'landscape'. Its your choice whether to print the background, which is easy to select in IE (not sure on other browsers?) but it's essential if printing out the crosswords. Some of the pages are VERY LONG (too long at times I agree) and have undergone multiple re-editing, which, together with the use of multiple graphic images, may also be a source of printout problems. So, it might be more efficient to selectively print sections via 'highlighting' with the mouse, after examining the 'print preview'. For printing out the grids for crossword puzzles the printer must be set to print 'background'. Everything I write is put up on the site as HTML web pages for immediate on-line use.

(8) ADVERTS: I spend 1-6 hours every day updating, re-editing notes and quiz pages, as well as regularly developing new pages. I estimate that since 2000 I've put 4000 hours work into the site, and since its early conception in 1998 for my own classes, it may well be double that time! Therefore, in retirement, on a considerably reduced income, I have no conscience about earning a little revenue from Google advertising after putting in and continuing to put in a great deal of hard work. Most of the adverts revenue goes into paying for site hosting web space, internet-broadband costs and a new computer, so it never needs to be a subscription site. The site will remain completely free and open to use on-line with the copyright restrictions outlined above. The adverts are not under my control so I do not necessarily endorse them, but they are supposed to match the page content and I try to ensure that the adverts are targeted at students and teachers in 11-18 science education, and it is your choice as to whether you click on any of them. The adverts will only appear at the top or bottom of the revision notes and index pages of the site, but not on the quiz pages. Therefore, when scrolling up/down, and generally using the pages, the adverts will not be seen most of the time.

CLICK on ICON-BUTTON KEY GUIDE  F/H = UK Foundation/Higher GCSE-KS4 entry level

I'm trying to develop an icon colour coding system for each academic level

KS3 SCIENCE [biology] [chemistry] [physics]

GCSE usually [chemistry]

GCE-AS-A2-IB chemistry usually [organic] [inorganic] [physical-theoretical]

(but there are lapses on the colours of some icons)

icon examples

usually 10Q random multiple choice test

usually 10Q random short type in answer questions

multi-word fill question

Matching Pair Quiz questions

'jumbly' mixed up sequences

crossword puzzle

revision notes

syllabus

structured questions (usually with answers)

data

useful internal or external link

takes you the top of a page

The other half of the site is mainly 'non-science'

To save on web hosting costs our scenery-holidays-walks and friends web pages etc. are assembled within this site in the section called ...

*  revising KS3 SATs science at Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic  *  revising IGCSE-GCSE science-chemistry at Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic *  revising AS A2 IB GCE advanced level chemistry at Doc Brown's Chemistry Clinic  *